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DEV’s Big Summer Bug Smash is now LIVE! Share $5,000 in cash prizes, skateboards, and more across 20+ winners. 🐛🐞🪲

Jess Lee on July 14, 2026

Today is National Be Nice to Bugs Day in the U.S. and we’re thrilled to launch our Big Summer Bug Smash powered by Sentry. This smashing good time ...
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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Edited

Can't wait to see what others share. Speaking of bugs @jess...

 
 
 

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Omar Afifi

Where is the bug? I can't see it... Maybe because I'm a DEV++ member? 🤔😎

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Oh interesting. This is mine:

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Omar Afifi

Looks like your DEV++ membership is defective. You might want to Inspect Element that too 😉🔧

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Edited

It's funny because that's me signing out...

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Omar Afifi

Classic 'It works on my machine' excuse 🤷‍♂️😂

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Jem The DEV Team

Just dropping in to see what all the buzz is about.

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

I see what you did there

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Vinicius Pereira

The Smash Stories track is a great call. The bugs I remember most were never really about the bug itself, they were about the layer that caught it before it reached anyone.
Assume you will slip at 3 a.m. and build for it. That mindset has saved me more than any amount of being careful.
Good luck to everyone smashing.

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Matt

very pumped to see what people do with this 🫡

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Anna Villarreal • Edited

Is this what you mean? Lol @francistrdev
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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Yep lol

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George Arthur

So there I was looking around, clicked and I was rolled 😅 @francistrdev

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Brrrrr

Let’s goo

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Bigboss6797976

communicate

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Uptime Architect

My two entries — both real debugging war stories: a transaction that committed in the past (dev.to/uptimearchitect/the-transac...) and a Zulip reply that vanished after "Successfully processed" (dev.to/uptimearchitect/zulip-logge...). Note: a spam-filter glitch still keeps them out of the #bugsmash feed (support is on it) — direct links work fine. Good luck, everyone!

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GENISYS

Perhaps the most interesting part of bugs isn't just fixing them, but understanding what decision allowed them to exist.

A bug is often the observable consequence of a hypothesis, a premise, or a decision that seemed reasonable at the time.

That's precisely why I'm building Genisys: an AI-powered deliberation system inspired by the idea of ​​councils—different perspectives debating a decision before it becomes a problem.

In the end, perhaps the best debugger isn't the one that finds the bug fastest, but the one that helps us (avoid making the same wrong decision twice).

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GENISYS

I'm building (Genisys) precisely around this hypothesis: before an important decision, deliberately introduce divergent perspectives to question assumptions, evidence, and possible consequences.

The idea is to transform the learning from each error into memory for future decisions—not just fixing the current bug.

Perhaps the next step in software engineering isn't just debugging, but decision debugging.

I'm testing this in practice now.

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Kantemir Satibalov

I'm participating for the cool badge🐞
dev.to/kantik001/the-rate-limiter-...

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KUNTAL GHOSH

Hi

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PubliFlow

Appreciate the practical examples. The Python ecosystem moves fast here — worth checking if the latest minor version has any relevant stdlib additions that simplify these patterns further.

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Austin Wilson ✅

Great 👍

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HVAC

HI!

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Vantix

cool

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Sanjay S

hi